Second verse, same as the worst: Random Political Thoughts

Get back to me when the Right stops trying to silence the Cheney and Kinzinger not to mention anyone who bad-mouths or votes against Trump.

Hillary is probably laughing at them all. Think on this, the Republicans have been trying and failing to get something, anything on her for decades at this point. Five years of effort and the Trumps and their allies are cracking like eggs.

Hey, just pointing out that both sides do it. When you single out left for being "woke" and cancel-culture without addressing the Right's version, silencing politicians, banning and burning books, marginalizing gays and other minorities, it sounds hypocritical. Personally, I see it as the left having enough of the right's nonsense and fighting back.

Because the terms are still useful to describe the camps various politicians align themselves with.

Your personal preferred definitions do not apply outside of your own head.

I've been advocating to just walking away from the global stage for a bit now. Let Europe fight the Russians, we need to focus on the economic war (and looming actual war) with China.

My personal preferred definitions align with the historical understanding in the US, and how the rest of the world views them. The political landscape has become so distorted in America that you may as well just use "Team Red" and "Team Blue" and be done with it. Look at your own posts - the only time you use "Left" is in an accusatory, polemical sense: "your side." Like kids in a fucking playground.

Right now, you have two brands of - largely unpopular - populism, both of which present an ideological veneer which peels away faster than a scratch-and-sniff postcard. The only people who are advocating for actually getting the money out of politics are considered such ideological outliers that they're branded as crazy extremists.



Yeah, I wouldn't hold your breath on that one.



This makes no sense. You can't have it both ways. Any confrontation between the US and China will occur - initially - through proxies, and over competing spheres of geopolitical and economic interest. The only way the US can "walk away from the global stage" is by conceding Taiwan and the economic war to China. Systems are global, and globalism is here to stay - unless we nuke ourselves back into the Stone Age. The entire trajectory of human history has been toward larger and more complex systems.

The Russian situation is a huge mess, and the Wolfowitz doctrine had central place in that clusterfuck. Given the extent that Russia - justifiably - feels that it's been fucked over by the West, and assurances betrayed, selling democracy to them is going to be pretty hard at this point: not that it was ever going to be easy to sell democracy to a country that's never had it in 1000 years. That boat sailed when Russia was denied entry into NATO and the EU, and now we're all stuck with the consequences.

There is a difference between "not feeling sorry" and "excusing it". You're doing the later while pretending it's the former.



Walking away from being "Team America World Police FUCK YEAH!" doesn't mean "cede all trade authority to China". While I'd hope to avoid an actual war with China over it, if it comes, I'd prefer a hot war to a slow cold trade take-over of the US by Chinese Globalists.

As for Taiwan, yeah, fuck it, let Western Taiwan have Eastern China. There comes a time when the Chinese people will have to step up and do what needs to be done. Though with their cultural mindset, that ship might have sailed.